Click to read the article
Comment
10/18/08
Mars Attacks! (1996)
46 %
Tomatometer
How does the Tomatometer work 
Reviews Counted: 56
Fresh: 26
Rotten:30
Average Rating: 5.6/10
Runtime: 1 hr 48 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Director Tim Burton unleashes MARS ATTACKS!, a vicious, affectionate, brightly-colored homage to 1950s alien invasion movies. When a shiny silver flying saucer lands in the Nevada desert, a group of skull-faced Martians exit the... [More]
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Glenn Close, Annette Bening, Pierce Brosnan
Director: Tim Burton
Get This Movie
Reviews for Mars Attacks!
Top CriticClick to read the article
10/18/08
Top Critic
Perhaps they don't create quite enough deeply funny earthlings to go around, but a thoroughly meanspirited big-budget movie is always a treasurable rarity.
08/25/08
Top Critic Since the movie is obviously designed to be a larky romp through low-culture cheese, it may seem mean-spirited to complain that in the end Burton's spectacle is a bit hollow.
08/25/08
Top Critic oaded with wit, nifty little ideas and an extraordinary sense of design, but its allure is of quite a particular nature, much closer to that of Ed Wood than of Burton's earlier, and far more commercially successful, works.
08/25/08
Top Critic
Top Critic Burton is at his funniest when the Martians are zapping away like brats playing a video game.
09/27/07
It has a silly juvenile appeal in its unrelenting and subversive camp satire of the pop culture scene.
01/06/07
This may not be the best or funniest effort by Burton. It is his biggest, and a lot of fun, too.
04/09/05
A most unpleasant surprise to all those who based their expectations on Burton's previous work.
05/22/03
Just a parade of scattershot gags, more often weird than funny and most often just flat.
05/20/03
Top Critic
A frantic, funny love letter to an era of entertainment gone by, but also a top-notch example of modern comedy.
11/07/02
Top Critic It's got attitude, goodness knows; it has stars by the fistful; and it certainly was made with technical skill. What it doesn't have is enough of a story to fill an hour and 46 minutes.
10/15/02
Mars Attacks! is packed with memorable sights and hilariously ridiculous ideas.
09/10/02
Latest News for Mars Attacks!
September 22, 2005:
Critical Consensus: A Beautiful "Bride," A Bumpy "Flight," And a Bouncy "Bounce"
This week at the movies brings a twisted tale of love from beyond the grave ("Tim Burton's Corpse Bride"), a paranoid thriller at 40,000 feet ("Flightplan")... More...
Related Forums for Mars Attacks!
Film review:
by: jpeischl 7/14/02
by: jpeischl 7/14/02
| Tomatometer Percentage | Movie |
|---|---|
 48% |
Smart People |
 89% |
Kung Fu Panda |
| 61% |
Journey to the Center … |
| 67% |
The Incredible Hulk |
| 76% |
Indiana Jones and the … |
| Tomatometer Percentage | Movie |
|---|---|
| 96% |
WALL-E |
| 83% |
Tropic Thunder |
| 63% |
Sisterhood of the Trav… |
| 93% |
Encounters At the End … |
| 88% |
Gonzo: The Life and Wo… |
IGN RSS Feeds